{"id":2678,"date":"2008-09-02T09:40:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T13:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2008-09-02T12:13:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-02T16:13:20","slug":"democrats-and-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2678","title":{"rendered":"Democrats and women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I guess the activities of the Democrat sound machine should wake up most women to what Democrats really think of them. Heck, the sound machine of the last six months should have told them something. They’re political pawns in the game of the rich white dudes that run the party.<\/p>\n

As soon as Sarah Palin was named as the Vice Presidential candidate of the Republican Party, she was referred to as a “pawn” in John McCain’s quest for power. She was attacked for being a mother, she was attacked for “choosing” to keep her Downs syndrome-afflicted child, she was accused of the wildest conspiracies ever, even her family was attacked for twenty-year-old DWI cases and for having a bit of belly fat.<\/p>\n

She couldn’t have been choosen for non-gender-related reasons, I suppose. Even though I thought she was an excellent choice as far back as April based solely on her politics – I mean after all that’s why we choose politicians, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

Alan Colmes blamed Palin for her child’s afliction, and this morning, I read Washington Post’s resident partisan hack Eugene Robinson<\/a>‘s bit this morning indicating that Palin’s daughter should be forced to have an abortion (I had to screen capture it because they’ve moved it around so much, it’s hard to link to it);<\/p>\n

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I think Robinson does all of his research exclusively on HuffPo and Daily Kos. I’ve never seen him depart from the party line on any issue. I suppose that makes him think he’s smart – but actually, he’s just a useful pawn. It also makes me think he’s the affirmative action columnist for the Post, seein’s how his only talent appears to be cutting and pasting from the moonbats.<\/p>\n

I’d like to know how Robinson knows that keeping the baby isn’t the “choice” of Bristol. But, then the Democrats have disposable principles and they don’t understand people who live out the principles they stand behind instead of just passing out advice for everyone else to follow – like Democrats.<\/p>\n

Ruth Marcus, in the Washington Post<\/a>, excuses the media’s overblown coverage of the 17-year-old mother-to-be;<\/p>\n

And it will be that much more difficult in the media glare. “We ask the media to respect our daughter and (the father) Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates,” the Palins said in their statement.<\/p>\n

As a parent, I sympathize. But as a parent in the media, I also know that the Palins assumed this risk. Anyone who watched coverage of the Bush twins’ barroom exploits knew that the avert-your-eyes stance toward candidates’ children has its limits.<\/p>\n

It’s naive to imagine, in the anything-goes Internet era, that Palin’s daughter’s pregnancy would go unremarked upon. It’s also mistaken, I think, to expect it. Like it or not, Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is intertwined with an important public policy debate about which the two parties differ and on which Sarah Palin has been outspoken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if she was any more forgiving of the media during the Clinton years.<\/p>\n

I remember reading all of the venomous comments that continue to this day about Hillary Clinton from the Obamaniacs.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not a woman, obviously, but I’m pretty sure if I were and I were to be a Democrat, I’d think long and hard about belonging to a political party that so willingly attacks any candidate based solely on their biological composition and uses the camoflage of a word like “choice” to dictate to candidates of a particular biological composition the future of their families. A party that hides behind a misnomer like “choice” to advocate for the cavalier termination of lives because of aesthetics and political convenience.<\/p>\n

When a woman makes a “choice” that doesn’t fit the narrative of Democrats, she’s shamed into thinking she’s done something wrong. Just like Hillary who decided to fight the campaign out to it’s conclusion was shamed for it. All for the rich white guys of the Democrat Party clinging to their sad little empires built on the backs of minorities and women.<\/p>\n

Heh! Someone just sent me an email warning me that Sarah Palin is a “redneck” whose husband works in the oil fields and races snowmobiles and she hunts beasts in Alaska. I guess because I live in the Metro DC area, this should scare me about our future VP\/President. Actually, I envy them. Smoke that.<\/p>\n

Added:<\/strong> Contrast what the Washington Post said about moms in politics before Sarah Palin became the VP candidate at Michelle Malkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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